Why does everyone seem to think Toriyama is
attracted to Lightning?

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Toriyama isn't attracted to Lightning. I'm not sure why anyone would assume this. It's possible he thinks Lightning is attractive, but he isn't personally attracted to her. It should be fairly obvious to anyone who has sat through a Toriyama narrative that he isn't capable of such feelings. He isn't capable of any feelings, hence his attempts to convey realistic human emotion in his scripts always miss the mark horribly.

It's best to think of Toriyama as a sort of corporate automaton (not literally, obviously - if a Japanese company wanted an actual corporate automaton it would look like a fourteen year-old girl), but like an automaton Toriyama is incapable of creativity. Any 'creative' decisions he makes are in fact based on focus groups and vox pops and social network tracking. Toriyama isn't attracted to Lightning. Lightning is merely Robotoriyama's approximation of an attractive woman based on meticulous market research, designed specifically so that as large a percentage of the audience as possible will find her attractive, and hopefully buy official Lightning resin dolls and body pillows.

I don't understand why people think it is anything else than him cranking out three games with similar programming to make quick cash. This series after the first XIII game is nothing more than making some pocket money while they develop the next big FF title. Lightning isn't coming back. This is it for her. Hell she was barely even in the last game. The people on this board need to get a massage or take a vacation or get laid or something. They are far too stressed out over these games as if FF is completely dead and nothing but Lightning games will come out from now on.